Reading about Laserblast [1978] in my Halliwell's Film Guide stationed in the khazi I was excited about mention of many cereal-packet style model spacecraft. So from the bog to the blog I did a little research.
Alas, my laser-zest faded when I scanned the only copy I could find on You Tube, the Mystery Science Thearte 3K version. Skimming through the whole 90 minutes I could see just one spaceship, which was not a breakfast cereal model. I was gutted.
Laserblast appears to be a sort of bullied-kid-finds-alien-blaster-and-seeks-revenge sort of flick. Every review I have read describes it as a lame, trashy, cheapo turkey and just plain bad.
The only positive comment I could find was about the stop motion aliens, which look like a cross between the Eraserhead baby and ET.
Amazingly it has a really sizable page on Wikipedia, which suggests some Laserblast love somewhere.
Usually I will give a film a whirl but the sheer number of moans about Laserblast have put me off.
Should I bother to watch it readers?
i saw in drive in with my family aged 7 and enjoyed it
ReplyDeleteDrive-ins! Wow! That's one experience I can never share Konsumterra as we didn't have them in Northern England when I was a kid. I doubt if there were ever any in the UK. What was it like at a drive-in? Are you in the States?
DeleteI've seen it a couple times and kinda like it. Definitely low-budget and slow-ish in the middle... but watchable. It's along the quality scale of similar movies from the era like Bug and The Car and Eat My Dust.
ReplyDeleteBug, Wow! That was a great film. Quite grisly if I recall. I don't think its been seen on British TV for decades. Last time I checked you had to pay to watch it on You Tube as well. As for The Car and Eat My Dust, those are new ones on me. I will check them out.
DeleteYeah, Bug is by far my favorite of those... by 'quality' I just mean general budget, level of acting... they all take place around small desert communities.
DeleteLaserblast is probably the worst of them, but still has charm, IMO.